Category: Politics

Did COMELEC spokesman James Jimenez fail his advocacy?

April 24, 2013 benign0 4 Comments

Commission on Elections (COMELEC) spokesman James Jimenez did his job well. He led a successful initiative to educate voters, mounted drives to raise awareness around abusive political campaign practices, and publicised processes and procedures to encourage Filipinos to register and vote. In a country where confidence in the electoral process delivering fair results is so…

Civics, Government, Politics

PCOS debacle: Is the software source code really important?

April 24, 2013 benign0 14 Comments

The source code is the format of a program in human-readable format (that is, as far as computer programs go). It most intuitively describes the logic followed by a computer that is running said program. Programs written in high-level languages like Visual Basic, Javascript, PERL, PHP, or database languages like Standard Query Language (SQL) and…

Politics, Tech Talk

Lead up to fiesta elections: Has Philippine democratic politics changed at all?

April 23, 2013 benign0 44 Comments

From the little window through which I take stock of the landscape of issues that describe the lead up to the May 2013 elections, I’d say — surprise surprise — things haven’t changed much. A lot of developments have supposedly further liberalised and democratised democracy as it is practiced in the Philippines. The two new…

Politics

What a difference a day makes – from incredible to infernal: Noynoy’s feature on Time 100

April 22, 2013July 25, 2013 FallenAngel 5 Comments

What a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours … What a difference a day makes, and the difference is you – Stanley Adams, What a Diff’rence a Day Makes What a difference a day makes indeed. President Benigno Simeon Aquino (BS Aquino) should have been getting good publicity for being featured on Time’s 100…

Government, Media, Politics

Global spin: Noynoy Aquino is in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world

April 20, 2013April 20, 2013 Ilda 54 Comments

President Benigno Simeon â€œBSâ€ Aquino has been included in TIME magazineâ€™s 2013 list of 100 most influential people in the world. It is interesting to note that Kim Jong Un, North Koreaâ€™s Supreme Leader, the one who is threatening to annihilate the U.S., is also included in the list. The inclusion of Kim in the…

Government, Media, Politics

SC upholds candidates’ freedom to air as much TV and radio political ads as they want!

April 17, 2013April 17, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

Perhaps if our “activists” focused more on creating buzzes around real issues rather than on presuming to police the campaign tactics of our politicians and auditing their token fly-by-night “platforms” we’d gain more traction around creating a more issues-based political discourse. Indeed, unless you are as brilliant as Lee Kuan Yew, there is little point…

Media, Politics

Kris Aquino pays top tax dollar in the spirit of Daang Matuwid!

April 17, 2013April 17, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

Funny the way presidential sister and Queen of All Philippine Media Kris Aquino comes into the fore whenever Filipino pep for the “right” people needs to be pump primed. Most recently the buzz is her emerging as “top Filipino taxpayer” paying a whopping (by Philippine standards) 49.87 million pesos (USD1.2 million) to the Philippine government….

Media, Money Talks, Politics

Wikileaks exposé: Philippine military generals allegedly in drag during Marcos ‘secret’ party!

April 15, 2013June 6, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

More leaked “secret cables” are coming out revealing more about the underbelly of Philippine society in the 1970s under the rule of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Even as the camp of former Defense Minister, now Senate President, Juan Ponce Enrile battle the re-emergence of anecdotal evidence surrounding the allegedly homicidal past of scion and Senatorial…

Culture, Politics, Society